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Some Gender-Affirming Care May Be Permitted, Says Vatican Cardinal

Fernández's comments at the conference seem designed to soften the condemnation of "gender theory" by acknowledging the reality of transgender people's lived experience. Read More

In New Book, Pope Francis Repeats Message of Welcome to LGBTQ+ People

“Everyone in the Church is invited, including people who are divorced, including people who are homosexual, including people who are transgender.” Read More

Norway’s Bishops Join Ecumenical Anti-LGBTQ+ Statement

The Norwegian Catholic Bishops’ Council has signed onto an ecumenical statement denouncing diverse categories of gender and sexuality Read More

LGBTQ+ Advocates React to Trump’s Victory, Chastize Cardinal Dolan; And More News

Today's post includes reactions from Catholic LGBTQ+ advocates to Donald Trump's election, a priest's pro-transgender reflection on "Dignitas Infinita," and more news. Read More

Students, Faculty Protest St. Norbert College’s Change to Regressive Gender Policy

Saint Norbert College, a Catholic liberal arts school in De Pere, Wisconsin, has changed its gender policy to recognize only two genders, male and female. Read More

New Article Offers LGBTQ+ Perspectives in Debate Over Reproductive Surrogacy

In the "National Catholic Reporter," journalist Camillo Barone explores the ways that surrogacy has played a part in Catholics’ lives, offering a perspective on the practice that objects to its description as “a grave violation of dignity" yet which has brought much goodness to LGBTQ+ people. Read More

The Synod Needs to Hear Stories of LGBTQ+ Flourishing, Writes Theologian

“Even if others choose to live with scales over their eyes, LGBTQ+ Catholics can see the Spirit creating and renewing,” writes Nick Fagnant in an essay for Commonweal about the Synod on Synodality, which concludes next month. Read More

Gender Transitions Are About “Rebirth,” Not a Moral Wrong, Argues Trans Filipina Mother

Catholic faith is what has been the source of strength for a trans Filipina woman living in Australia throughout both her gender transition and her journey of becoming a mother through surrogacy. Read More

What Dignity Means Now: Part Four of Commonweal’s Symposium on “Dignitas Infinita”

Maura Tumulty argues that "Dignitas Infinita" discusses transgender people and transgender rights in a “murky and unclear” way, providing little knowledge and information in the sections titled “Gender Theory” and “Sex Change." Read More

What Dignity Means Now: Part Two of Commonweal’s Symposium on “Dignitas Infinita”

Dignitas Infinita’s statements should be read as “boundaries, warning signals, and challenges for moralists and public-policy leaders” rather than as pastoral guidelines, writes Cathleen Kaveny in a recent essay on the Vatican declaration. Read More